From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Dec 27 02:22:24 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77A64E94958 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2017 02:22:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (be-well.ilk.org [23.30.133.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 529EB72223 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2017 02:22:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from lowell-desk.lan (router.lan [172.30.250.2]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49B7033C22; Tue, 26 Dec 2017 21:22:11 -0500 (EST) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id AAADF39848; Tue, 26 Dec 2017 21:22:10 -0500 (EST) From: Lowell Gilbert To: Bob Willcox Cc: Lowell Gilbert , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I recover a lost ports directory with svn? References: <20171226162754.GE99670@rancor.immure.com> <44bmilcm0f.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <20171226194710.GG99670@rancor.immure.com> Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 21:22:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20171226194710.GG99670@rancor.immure.com> (Bob Willcox's message of "Tue, 26 Dec 2017 13:47:11 -0600") Message-ID: <44373wdi5p.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 02:22:24 -0000 Bob Willcox writes: > On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 02:44:16PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> Bob Willcox writes: >> >> > Unfortunately the documentation for >> > svn seems skimpy (at best) >> >> Not so. Every command has extensive help, and there's a whole book on >> the subversion website explaining the concepts. > > I get the availability of the book (which I don't have), but I'd hardly claim > that the provided command help is extensive. Hardly more than traditional Unix > Usage info. That's fair. The help messages are enough for me to work out syntax without going back to first principles, but, yes, that's pretty much what I expect from a man page. > Personally, I would much prefer a real man page. Funny you should mention that. Some years back, I bashed out a script that turned the svn help into a browsable document. I can't find that tool in a quick search of my backups, and I don't even remember whether it converted things into HTML or info files. [As an emacs user, info is roughly equivalent to HTML for such things; I have no idea how info can be useful if you aren't using emacs to browse the docs.] But the point is that I found the cross-link information fairly easy to parse. And once you can do that, you can turn it into anything useful. Be full.